International Consultancy – Support for the Development of UNICEF Burkina Faso Country Programme Management Plan 2024 -2025

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The current UNICEF Burkina Faso Country Programme Document (CPD) is set to expire at the end of December 2023. The new extended CPD 2018-2025 has been approved by EB and is in the stage of operationalization into rolling work plan 2024-2025. The UNICEF Burkina Faso Country Programme was developed through a participatory process that involved several groups of children including adolescents, the Government, NGOs, UN Agencies, as well as development partners. The process was built on the Strategic Moment of Reflection (SMR) of the current programme as well as annual reviews in order to capitalize on lessons learned for the new programme.

With reference to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the situation analysis has been carried out using an equity-based approach, targeting the dimensions of risk and vulnerability specific to girls, boys and women in Burkina Faso. The situation analysis, conducted in 2017, takes stock of the achievements of the last five years in the area of the rights of these different categories. It then identifies the most disadvantaged social categories and attempts to pinpoint the failures to respect rights and the reasons behind them. It follows an inclusive and participatory approach and provides an overview of the situation of children's and women's rights to survival and development, to education and to environment through the "life cycle" approach. The situation analysis is largely based on the one developed jointly with other UN agencies involved in the Common Country Assessment (CCA). The selection of priority intervention areas was then based on causal analyses of deprivation to understand the underlying and root causes of child rights violations. The programmatic niches correspond to the areas of intervention recommended by the UNICEF Strategic Plan 2018-2021, the Gender Action Plan 2018-2021 as well as by the various sectoral strategies recommended to better integrate the effects of climate change into UNICEF-supported country programmes. It is also aligned with the regional Key Result for Children as a corporate engagement from the Regional Collaboration for Children in the Western and Central Africa region.

How can you make a difference?

The objective of the consultancy is to provide strategic guidance and analytical support to assess the programmatic shifts and objectives and identify optimal management and human resources strategies for UNICEF Burkina Faso Country Programme. The consultant will work in close collaboration with the consultant recruited for the functional and skills gap analysis to bring independent perspectives, expertise and complementary skills sets to the new Country Programme organizational design and its successful implementation.

The proposed consultancy is anticipated to provide strategic guidance and support for the office in identifying management and human resources strategies to deliver the new Country Programme and enhancing linkages and partnership in key cross-cutting issues.

The specific tasks of this consultancy are:

• Review the process timeline for Country Programme Management Plan for 2024-2025 CPD and propose suggestions;
• Based on the CPD extension , identify meaningful opportunities to engage and consult key stakeholders in the Review process;
  • Support full review of the cross-sectoral sections
  • Oversee a workload analysis and affordability analysis of each section
  • Work with each section and gather their inputs needed as per the CPMP guidelines
• Present at a special CMT; inputs for the draft CPMP
• Together with Operations, produce a draft CPMP that will include:
  • Programme Management Environment and lessons learned from previous period;
  • Management Strategy;
  • Funding and leveraging strategy;
  • Performance Management and Monitoring Systems including KPIs for Programme and Operations;
  • Analysis of Integrated Budget and affordability analysis write up
  • Outlining refinements and adjustment to programme; relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, impact, sustainability, HRB programming
  • Recommendations for structural adjustments resulting from proposed programmatic changes

The completion of the outlined tasks will require:

• Familiarization with the UNICEF technical regulations governing the CPMP process
• Familiarization with the UNICEF Strategic Plan, including the revised goal framework, organizational commitments and core strategies globally embraced
• Desk Review of key knowledge products established by the Country Office as well as inter-agency documents.
• Facilitating team discussions
• Succinct writing skills

The consultant will be required to submit the following deliverables according to the below schedule and timeline and within a period from October 2023 through February 2024.

Item No.

Description

Deliverables

Timeframe

1

CPD/Strategic Moment of Reflection

• Read background materials(CPD, SMR notes, etc)

5 days

2

Facilitate team discussions

• Support Sections to build on SMR and CPD
• Support full review of the cross-sectoral sections
• Support field offices to review and analysis their performance within the CPD direction
• Oversee a workload analysis and affordability analysis of each section/office
• Come up with a draft accountability framework with regards to Ouagadougou and field offices

30 days

3

Enlarged CMT

• Based on all inputs, prepare a draft CPMP and main findings in a PPT for presentation

2 days

4

Final CPMP

• Based on above and incorporating CMT meeting recommendations, come up with the final CPMP

10 days

5

Final accountability framework

• Final framework shared

10 days

6

Provide support to affected staff

• Support and guidance is provided to affected staff

20 days

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To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• • Advanced university degree (Master Degree) in Social Sciences or other related field.
  • At least ten years progressively responsible professional work experience at the national and international levels in social development, programme planning and management, monitoring and evaluation.
  • A good background knowledge of UNICEF’s mandate, mission and programmes is required.
  • Technical knowledge and experience in UN/UNICEF planning cycle and Results-Based Management approach is required.
  • Previous experience in similar exercises (CPMP, MTR)
  • Previous experience in understanding of the Burkina Faso country context is an asset.
  • Previous experience in developping mitigation measure to support affected staff during CPMP
  • This consultation is aimed at individuals with expertise in the UNICEF planning process
  • Fluency in French & English is required.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.